Taint Kubernetes Control Plane Node for the vSphere Container Storage Plug-in Installation

Before installing the vSphere Container Storage Plug-in in your generic Kubernetes environment, make sure that you taint the control plane node with the node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane=:NoSchedule parameter.

Procedure

1. To taint the control plane node, run the following command:

   kubectl taint nodes <k8s-primary-name> node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane=:NoSchedule

2. Verify that you have tainted the control plane node.

   $ kubectl describe nodes | egrep "Taints:|Name:"
   Name:               <k8s-primary-name>
   Taints:             node-role.kubernetes.io/control-plane:NoSchedule
   Name:               <k8s-worker1-name>
   Taints:             <none>
   Name:               <k8s-worker2-name>
   Taints:             <none>
   Name:               <k8s-worker3-name>
   Taints:             <none>
   Name:               <k8s-worker4-name>
   Taints:             <none>